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Films from the country "senegal", sorted by rating
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Camp de Thiaroye (1988)
, 2h27Directed by Ousmane Sembène
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama, War
Themes French war films
Actors Sidiki Bakaba, Jean-Daniel Simon, Marthe Mercadier, Pierre Londiche
Des tirailleurs sénégalais venus des colonies de l'Afrique-Occidentale française, anciens combattants de l'armée française et prisonniers en Europe durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, sont rassemblés avant leur démobilisation en novembre 1944 au camp de transit de Thiaroye au Sénégal. Soumis à divers humiliations, ils apprennent enfin que le montant des indemnités et pécule qui doit leur être payé (arriéré de solde, pécule, prime de démobilisation) sera divisé par deux.
Moolaadé (2004)
, 2hDirected by Ousmane Sembène
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about suicide
Actors Fatoumata Coulibaly, Naky Sy Savané, Habib Dembélé
The film is set in a colourful Burkina Faso village dotted with termite mounds, and a mosque made from clay that resembles a gigantic hedgehog. The village is a symbol of green Africa, a time capsule that nonetheless is not immune to the influences of the outside and ‘modern’ world.
Hyenas (1992)
, 1h50Directed by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Djibril Diop Mambety
Hyènes (Hyenas) tells the story of Linguere Ramatou, an aging, wealthy woman who revisits her home village of Colobane. Linguere offers a disturbing proposition to the people of Colobane and lavishes luxuries upon them to persuade them. This embittered woman, "as rich as the World Bank", will bestow upon Colobane a fortune in exchange for the murder of Dramaan Drameh, a local shopkeeper who abandoned her after a love affair and her illegitimate pregnancy when she was 16.
Directed by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama
Actors Aminata Fall "Garmi"
In Dakar, selling newspapers on the street is an occupation always occupied by boys. But one morning, Sili, a young beggar, challenges that exclusive rule. Her age is uncertain, between 10 and 13, and she walks the streets with the help of her crutches. She begs for help in the same spot the boys sell their papers, but today they attack her and she falls, rolling over and over. That’s it; she too will sell newspapers starting tomorrow.
Le Mandat (1968)
, 1h30Directed by Ousmane Sembène
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Mouss Diouf, Ousmane Sembène
Le jour où le facteur apporte à Ibrahima Dieng un mandat de 25 000 francs CFA de la part de son neveu, immigré à Paris, Ibrahima se montre généreux. Dans le quartier la nouvelle se répand et il aide sa famille et ses voisins, mais sans carte d'identité la poste refuse de lui remettre l'argent, ce qui est l'origine d'un long parcours du combattant dans les méandres de l'administration sénégalaise.
The Wagoner (1963)
, 20minutesDirected by Ousmane Sembène
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa
Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène's Borom Saret tells the story of a poor man trying to make a living as a cart driver in Dakar.
Emitaï (1971)
, 1h43Directed by Ousmane Sembène
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama
Actors Mbissine Thérèse Diop
En 1942 en Casamance, dans le Sud du Sénégal, l'administration pétainiste cède le pouvoir aux hommes du Général de Gaulle. L'armée décide de réquisitionner des vivres dans le petit village de Efock. Les villageois refusent de donner le riz, leur unique moyen de subsistance. Les femmes décident de le cacher. La plupart des hommes sont partis combattre en France, les anciens espèrent l'intervention du dieu du Tonnerre, Emitaï. La répression et le massacre des innocents commencent.
Mossane (1996)
, 1h45Directed by Safi Faye
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama
Mossane (Magou Seck) is a beautiful 14-year-old girl from a rural Serer village, beloved by many including her own brother and Fara, a poor university student. Although she has long been promised in marriage to the wealthy Diogaye, Mossane defies her parents' wishes and falls in love with Fara. On her wedding day, she refuses to marry Diogaye and tragedy ensues.
Letter from My Village (1976)
Directed by Safi Faye
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama, Documentary
Actors Safi Faye
Ngor is a young man living in a Senegalese village who wishes to marry Columba. Ongoing drought in the village has affected its crop of groundnuts and as a result, Ngor cannot afford the bride price for Columba. He goes to Senegal's capital city, Dakar, to try to earn more money and is exploited there. He returns to the villagers and shares his experiences of the city with the other men. The story, which shows the daily lives of the villagers, is told in the form of a letter to a friend from a villager, voiced by Faye.
Faat Kiné (2001)
, 1h30Directed by Ousmane Sembène
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa
After two pregnancies out of wedlock, Faat Kiné has earned a place for herself as a successful gas station owner in patriarchal Senegalaise society, raising her two children alone and providing fully for their needs.
Niaye (1964)
, 29minutesDirected by Ousmane Sembène
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama
La fille du chef du village porte un enfant conçu de son père. La mère de la fille, et femme du chef du village, en est tourmentée. Le village est troublé par ces évènements. Les femmes évitent la mère et les hommes évitent le chef.
Touki Bouki (1973)
, 1h35Directed by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Aminata Fall "Garmi", Joséphine Baker
Mory, a charismatic cowherd who drives a motorcycle mounted with a bull-horned skull, and Anta, a female student, meet in Dakar. Alienated and tired of life in Senegal, they dream of going to Paris and come up with different schemes to raise money for the trip. Mory eventually contrives to steal the money, and much clothing, from the household of a wealthy homosexual while the latter is taking a shower. Anta and Mory can finally buy tickets for the ship to France. But when Anta boards the ship in the Port of Dakar, Mory, poised on the gangplank behind her, is suddenly seized by an inability to leave his roots, and he runs away madly to find his bull-horned motorcycle, only to see that it has been ruined in a crash that nearly killed the rider who had taken it. The ship sails away with Anta but not Mory while the hauntingly melodious song "Love Is Fleeting, But Rejection Lasts a Lifetime" is sung and Mory sits next to his hat on the ground, staring disconsolately at his wrecked motorcycle. The film is written in French and Wolof, with English subtitles.
Tall as the Baobab Tree (2012)
, 1h22Origin Senegal
Genres Drama, Adventure
Coumba est la première fille à quitter son village isolé en Afrique, pour faire ses études dans une grande ville. Lorsque soudain survient un accident qui menace la survie de sa famille. Le père de Coumba décide alors d'imposer à Debo, sa petite sœur de 11 ans, un mariage forcé. Dans un espoir d'un avenir meilleur, Coumba prépare un plan secret pour la sauver du sort qu'on lui impose.
City of Contrasts (1969)
, 21minutesDirected by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about cities
Actors Djibril Diop Mambety
A fictional documentary that portrays the city of Dakar, Senegal, as we hear the conversation between a Senegalese man (the director, Djibril Diop Mambéty) and a French woman, Inge Hirschnitz. As we travel through the city in a picturesque horse-drawn wagon, we chaotically rush into this and that popular neighborhood of the capital, discovering contrast after contrast: A small African community waiting at the Church's door, Muslims praying on the sidewalk, the Rococo architecture of the Government buildings, the modest stores of the craftsmen near the main market.
Badou Boy (1970)
, 56minutesDirected by Djibril Diop Mambety
Origin Senegal
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa
A sarcastic look at Senegal's capital that followed the adventures of what the director described as a "somewhat immoral street urchin who is very much like myself". The contest pits the non-conformist individual against an absurdly caricatured policeman who pursues the protagonist through comedically improbable scenarios. Badou Boy celebrates an urban subculture while parodying the state.